Alicia Steinmetz

Biographic Data

ID4247886
NAMEAlicia Steinmetz
GIVEN NAMESAlicia
FAMILY NAMESteinmetz
SIGNATURESTEINMETZ A
AFFILIATIONSFlorida International University
ORCID0000-0002-5956-1473
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Marx and the Problem of Advertising

    Alicia Steinmetz, Matt Shafer et al.ARTICLETheory & Event2026

    Why didn’t Marx write about advertising? While not a few Marxist theorists have attempted to account for advertising’s role in the later development of capitalism, Marx’s own inattention to this economic form has only rarely been recognized as the genuine puzzle that it is. Here we examine the role of advertising in Marx’s own time and his strange silence about it in his work. We demonstrate that prevailing Marxist accounts of advertising’s devel…

  • Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Raymond Geuss on Realism, Liberalism, and Political Imagination

    Raymond Geu, Alicia Steinmetz et al.ARTICLEPolity2025

  • Is ruthlessness the enemy? On Joshua Cherniss’ Liberalism in Dark Times

    Alicia SteinmetzARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2024

    Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Duncan Bell, “What Is Liberalism?” Political Theory 43, no. 6 (2014): 682–715, at 693.2 Helena Rosenblatt, The Lost History of Liberalism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018), 42.3 Joshua L. Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021), 6.4 Ibid., 203.5 Ibid., 7…

  • Isaiah Berlin’s Liberal Reformation

    Open AccessAlicia SteinmetzARTICLEModern Intellectual History2024References: 7

    This article clarifies the relationship between Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism, pluralism, humanism, and “aestheticism” by analyzing his unique approach to, and stories about, the history of ideas. I argue that Berlin should be understood as a reformer of liberalism, who understood his intervention in intellectual-historical terms. Reacting against what he saw as threats to human liberty and dignity rooted in the monist rational–scientific aspiration…

  • Why the Imaginary Needs the Imagination

    Alicia SteinmetzARTICLEPolity2024Cited by: 1References: 20

  • Hobbes and the Politics of Translation

    Open AccessAlicia SteinmetzARTICLEPolitical Theory2021Cited by: 4

    This essay argues that Hobbes’s work as a translator was fundamental to his mature political philosophy. A proper appreciation for the significance of Hobbes’s lifelong engagement with the politics of translation clarifies both the relationship between Hobbes’s humanist and scientific work, and the meaning of his simultaneous critique and use of rhetoric in his political writings. Against the interpretation held by many scholars that Hobbes simpl…

  • Value Pluralism and Tragic Loss

    Alicia SteinmetzARTICLECritical Review2020Cited by: 1References: 9

    Isaiah Berlin's value pluralism remains attractive because of its compelling account of tragic loss. The expectation and recognition of tragic loss can alert us to, and help guard us against, the fanaticism, the distortion of values, and the self-deception that may result from even the most well-meaning and good-faith pursuit of political ideals

  • Sanctuary and the Limits of Public Reason: A Deweyan Corrective

    Open AccessAlicia SteinmetzARTICLEPolitics and Religion2018References: 16

    This article contributes to the debate over the appropriate place of religion in public reason by showing the limits of this framework for understanding and evaluating the real-world religious political activism of social movements. Using the 1980s Sanctuary Movement as a central case study, I show how public reason fails to appreciate the complex religious dynamics of this movement, the reasons actors employ religious reasoning, and, as a result…